Just a couple of clips for the Bush-hating, global warming catastrophe alarmists.....
Since 2002, the base year for the Bush Administration’s emissions intensity reduction goal of 18 percent in a decade, U.S. greenhouse gas intensity has fallen by an average of 2.5 percent per year, resulting in a total reduction of almost 10 percent from 2002 to 2006.
Link: eia.doe.gov
and.....
China's carbon dioxide emissions may exceed those of the United States in 2007, making the country the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, according to analysis of Chinese energy data.
China's emissions of carbon dioxide are expected to climb by around 9 percent in 2007 to more than 6.2 billion based on projected fuel consumption figures, after jumping roughly the same amount in 2006 and 10 percent in 2005 when emissions stood at 5.3 billion metric tons of the gas. U.S. emissions were 5.9 billion that year.
"It looks likely to me that China will pass the United States this year," Gregg Marland, a senior staff scientist at the U.S. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) of the U.S. Department of Energy, told Reuters. "There's a very high likelihood they'll pass them in 2007."
China's emissions growth is one of the big reasons why the United States and Australia have refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol which calls for emissions limits for industrialized countries but none for developing economies including China, India, and Brazil.
Link: news.mongabay.com
It is understandable that China's growth and reliance on coal would increase their emissions. And, their emissions per capita is only around 1/6th as much as the U.S. However, emissions per unit of GDP is far less in the U.S. Just another benefit of a highly-industrialized, technically advanced economy. We have both the technology and the resources to reduce. And, apparently, the will also as witness to recent progress. |
